Digital BW, The Print

> So why, other than a bit of time, and the fact that one is done in the dark
> with chemcials, the other in daylight with inks is a digital print any less
> valuable than that of a silver print? I may understand it 10 years from now
> when there are fewer and fewer silver prints being made thus making them rare,
> but right now I just don't see it.

Maybe it's that further prints from the darkroom will all have subtle
variations between them, as it's unlikely that a person has the precision
for repeatability that a machine has, making each darkroom print, however so
slightly, different from the next?

I think we need to consider where the nay-sayers are coming from even if we
ultimately reject it.

What if we were discussing a piece of fine furniture, a wood chair? If you
were looking at two seemingly identical chairs, and you knew that for one
the artist/artisan stood over a lathe and personally carved each leg, and
used chisels to hone out the indent in the seat, and put his latex gloves on
to hand rub the oils - would that chair have anymore value for you than the
other, that was from the same artist, but off his automated machine shops
production line? 

That's a question we each need to decide for ourselves. Some buy art for the
final piece, some buy to support a process. Most just don't buy. ;-)

Todd